A muscle-bound orc lets out a roar and shouts at Mye-kuhl to stop, "You hurt my head with all your tapping! If you don't stop, I'll wrap my hands around your neck and make you really start kicking!" One of the group, a plucky half-elf named Mye-kuhl Jancer, is busy dancing, despite the circumstances. Mye-kuhl tells the orc, Krog, that he can't stop, "because the groove don't stop". The orc lets out another exasperated roar and punches the cave wall. Pleedleplop, a kuo-toa meditating on a nearby rock, says that they need not fight or worry, for the Sea Mother will see them through this in the end.
Brublind the dwarf scoffs at this, pointing out that he doesn't see any sea around here. Pleedleplop motions to a tiny flow of water streaming down the cave wall without opening his eyes. "They are often small, but you need only open your mind to see Her gifts."Ī bare-chested, moustachioed man with a cloak around his shoulders steps in between Mye-kuhl and Krog, cracking his knuckles and telling the orc to stand down. Krog stomps off to a corner of the slave pen and starts grumbling to himself. The man introduces himself to Mye-kuhl as Roland Leopold. Nylah Ventus, a blue-skinned tiefling with large antlers who's leaning against the wall lets out a laugh, and a gray-skinned gnome named Bingle calls out, "Who wants to bet that that quaggoth's just bonkers?" Roland is approached by a large, furry creature wearing fancy clothing, who slaps him on the back, "Good show, old boy, good show! Gave that orc a right scolding, hah, yes!" The creature introduces himself as "Lord Quagmiran Stumple, Esq.", an elven prince.
Meanwhile, Brublind has gone over to a pacing myconid sprout, and suddenly hears a child-like voice as he steps into the cloud of spores around it, "I can't hear any of the others now. Mye-kuhl Jancer joins them, and tells Sporp that he shouldn't look so down, he's gotta "feel the good vibrations, baby!" You've gone and done it now, Sporp… stupid Sporp…" The dwarf introduces himself, causing the myconid to jump, not having expected anyone to talk to it. When Jancer starts dancing, the little myconid actually starts swaying along with him, pointing out that they never danced back home in the Grove. The necromancer laughs and tells him that if he keeps that up, he'll be a "real fun guy~!" Jancer tells him that he's not in the Grove anymore, and Sporp nods and says that now he's "in the Groove". Nylah approaches the door of the slave pen, and calls out to the drow guard on duty, telling him that there are better things he could be doing while pressing her butt against the bars. He raises his hand crossbow and lazily tells her to back away before he gives her "a second tail".
Mye-kuhl Jancer joins in on the seduction attempt, adding his own bony bottom to the line-up, actually getting the guard's attention this time. Brublind and Elspeth will be taken to Mistress Ilvara in the temple for questioning.Roland, Pleedleplop, and Sporp will do laundry on the overlook.Nylah, Quagmiran, and Bingle will prep dinner in the barracks.The scarred drow introduces himself as Jorlan Despana, and tells them that he will be assigning them their jobs today: "Great, he swings the other way."īefore their efforts bear any fruit however, a drow with an acid-scarred face and a club-like hand missing several fingers enters, causing the prison guard to hop to attention. Mye-kuhl Jancer is able to insinuate himself onto this group by offering to give the high priestess important intel of his own.
Nylah is able to get out of actual kitchen work by chatting up the three off-duty drow in the barracks, who are busy boasting of their various exploits.